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Help DNF survive the winter
DNF-Style:
Like discussed in other topics. People keep telling our images are great and they should sell very good.
Since they don't our images don't seem so great to the buyers.
We are doing al we can. Since about 4 months our keywording has improved and is stil improving. The rest is being re-keyed (very difficult on some agencies). We're working towards somewhat more stock related material. But still sales won't pick up.
Any/All help is appreciated. We give you full disclosure (please don't share outside this forum).
Here are our portfolio's
Shutterstock
Sales: 3847
Istock
Sales: 952 since december 2005 on 734 files
Dreamstime sales: 638 portfolio exposure 11.97% average 65.13/month acceptance ratio 83%
Albumo
Sales: 0 Earned 88 dollars though sinve the give 25 USD to start and after 1000 files 10 ct for every upload.
Bigstock
sales: 158 approval rate 84.94%
Lucky Oliver
Sales: 47
StockXpert
Sales: 78
Snapvillage (building up)
Sales: 0
Fotolia
Sales: 683
Gecko
Sales: 0
Crestock (building up)
Sales: 1
123RF
Sales: 122 since jan 2007
Syates:
--- Цитата: DNF-Style от Декабря 06, 2007, 10:44:46 am ---....We give you full disclosure (please don't share outside this forum).
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Please be aware that Google is everywhere and the forum gets indexed so if you don't want to have things like this public, better don't post them. SY
DNF-Style:
Well I think these numbers will sooner keep the tax audits away from us instead of diving onto us. They have bigger fish to fry.
khz:
hi,
i am not one of the guru's of this business may be but, i have some thoughts on your situation my friend,
first and most important thing is quality of the photographs, which in your situation, they are great,
2: are they stock oriented or not, where will the potential customers will use your image? think about this before starting to shoot, and while determining your subjects and concepts always and always check out different sites with these concepts, what did people do about these concepts before you? which ones of these sell, which ones dont sell? try to shoot for micro stock only, your previous images that you shoot begore meetin micro stock may be awesome too, but most probably they wont sell.
3: keywords - may be as important as first two, it is the only way for customers to find out your images, so always double check different keyword combinations which can be usable for all sites, this keyword subject is the main reason why some photographers do extremely well in some sites, and cant sell on others
4: patience - i dont know how long have you been submitting to micro's but, y have to work very hard before things start to change for you. don get my wrong in any way that i am talking about your photographic knowledge or something, what i try to say is, every stock site has different characteristics and it takes time for you to learn these stuff. especially if it is not your full time job, y wont be able to catch the full time micro stockers in 6 - 8 months, who has been doing this business for more than 2 years. some of them are working very hard, every day and even nights to catch up the development of this business
Talya:
What about canstock? They do not sell much but they do sell.
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